A stranded passenger uses his mobile device as he sits on stairs in a terminal at the international airport in Frankfurt on March 27, 2012. More than 400 flights had to be cancelled when ground staff went on a warning strike for higher wages until the afternoon. Michael Probst/AP

A ferry passes a rental car stranded in the ocean at Oyster Point, 16 miles east of Brisbane, March 16, 2012. Three Japanese tourists were fooled by a low tide and their GPS into believing they could drive to a nearby island across mud and water. The trio, students from Tokyo, became stuck and had to abandon the vehicle. Chris McCormack/The Redland Times/Reuters

A stranded boat is seen at the bottom of the dried Jablanicko lake near Jablanica, Bosnia, Feb. 1, 2012. Dado Ruvic/Reuters

A train driver looks out of a locomotive during a heavy snowfall at the main railway station in Bucharest, Romania, Feb. 13, 2012. Vadim Ghirda/AP

An Ethiopian migrant sits outside a transit center where he waits to be repatriated in the western Yemeni town of Haradh on the border with Saudi Arabia on March 28, 2012. Some 12,000 migrants, mostly from the Horn of Africa, are stranded in Haradh, which they use as a stepping stone to reach Saudi Arabia, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Khaled Abdullah/Reuters

People push a car uphill next to a bus in Seattle. Several inches of snow fell quickly on the morning of Jan. 15, 2012, snarling traffic and clogging roadways. Ted S. Warren/AP

A crushed automobile is shown in a driveway of a home after a tree toppled on Jan. 18, 2012, in Oregon City, Ore. Western Oregon woke up to rain and slush instead of significant snow accumulations, but a storm that moved in overnight left thousands without power. Rick Bowmer/AP

A man rides a bike on main street 'Elk Avenue' in Crested Butte, Colo. on Jan. 16, 2012. Crested Butte received more than a foot of snow. Nathan Bilow/Crested Butte Mountain Resort/AP

Beds are prepared for stranded Qantas Airlines passengers inside the ballroom of Regal Airport Hotel in Hong Kong October 30, 2011. Qantas Airways and its unions appeared before a labor tribunal with Australia's prime minister urging an end to the industrial dispute that grounded the airline's entire fleet, stranding tens of thousands of passengers. Qantas had cancelled 447 flights affecting more than 68,000 passengers since grounding over 100 aircraft around the world. Tyrone Siu/Reuters

As American Eagle jet can be seen through the snow and ice on the windows of Cleveland Hopkins Airport as a heavy snow storm hit the area and closed the airport in Cleveland on Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. Amy Sancetta/AP

Passengers waiting for a flight to Helsinki rest on cots at Lisbon's international Portela Airport Monday morning, May 10, 2010. The airport reopened in the late morning after being closed for ten hours due to an ash cloud drifting over from a volcano in Iceland that caused major air travel chaos. Francisco Seco/AP

Bradley International Airport firefighter Kelly Logan hands out a Meal Ready-To-Eat to Susan Pitkin while she waits for a flight on Oct. 2011, in Windsor Locks, Conn. Passengers were stuck on planes for hours during a freak autumn snowstorm. Jessica Hill/AP

Foreign tourists wait to board a private helicopter at a makeshift landing pad south of Lukla in the Nepal Himalayas. Hundreds of foreign tourists and local guides who had been stranded in the Mount Everest region for days began flying out of the area Monday, Nov. 7, 2011 after flights resumed. Kevin Frayer/AP

Cancellations littered the departure boards at Detroit Metropolitan airport. There were delays in Detroit as a result of a winter storm that barreled up the East Coast. David Guralnick/Detroit News/AP

Passengers inch through long security lines at Denver International Airport as they try to leave the Mile High City before a holiday storm roars into the intermountain West on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009. The fast-moving snowmaker threatened to bring long delays for travelers along with a white Christmas. David Zalubowski/AP

A car is stuck in a ditch along a snow-covered road at Fechain near Cambrai Dec. 20, 2010, after heavy snow fell in Northern France. Heavy snow and frigid temperatures caused further disruption across northern Europe stranding travelers, snarling traffic and shutting schools. Pascal Rossignol/Reuters

Hundreds of cars are seen stranded on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago after a winter blizzard of historic proportions wobbled an otherwise snow-tough Chicago. America's wild weather year hit yet another new high: a devastating dozen billion-dollar catastrophes. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Wednesday that it has recalculated the number of weather disasters passing the billion dollar mark, with two new ones, pushing 2011's total to 12. The two costly additions are the Texas, New Mexico and Arizona wildfires and the mid June tornadoes and severe weather. Kiichiro Sato/AP

Snow removal crews work to clear runways at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia. A powerful East Coast blizzard menaced would-be travelers by air, rail and highway, leaving thousands without a way to get home after the holidays and shutting down major airports and rail lines. Matt Rourke/AP

A railway worker makes his way through the snow to clear points at the marshaling yard at the Central Station in Stockholm Feb. 21, 2010. Thousands of train passengers got stuck in Stockholm after a heavy snowfall caused heavy delays to the railway traffic in central Sweden, local media reported. Leif R Jansson/Reuters

Shaun Jones and Jacob Caldwell of BAM Contracting in St. Louis, work to repair damage to windows in the main terminal of St. Louis' Lambert International Airport, Saturday, April 23, 2011. Johnny Andrews/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/AP